The Ethics Of The Nursing Profession

Nursing is a career that is governed by a set of ethical principles. The duties of a nurse consist of care and support and its important that nurses are aware of their professional ethics. These principles are put into place to uphold and maintain moral values in healthcare. The American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics for nurses consists of nine provisions, outlined in the Code of Ethics for nurses with Interpretive Statements. These provisions are constructed to blueprint the role and responsibilities of a nurse. The chosen provisions being discussed will refer to the three main principles of patient autonomy, patient confidentiality, and patient rights.

Ethics, the rules and principles that guide right behaviors or conduct, are foundational to the field of bioethics, which focuses on ethical issues in healthcare (Mclennon, Uhrich, Lasiter, Chamnes, & Helft, 2013). Nurses are faced with ethical decision making principles daily when caring for their patients, some days more than others. According to Yoder-Wise (2011), ethics may be distinguished from the law because ethics is internal to an individual, looks to the ultimate “good” of an individual rather than society as a whole, and concerns the “why” of one’s actions (p. 91). In this particular situation, the nurse has to decide if she will respect the wishes of the patient’s family members or be upfront and honest with her patient and

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Have you ever sat and thought about how nurses can give good ethical quality of care when they seem to always be understaffed and overcrowded? In this Research paper, I will look at what the effects of understaffing is on nurses and patients. Per the CUPE website their research show that one in ten patients in Canada acquire a nosocomial infection during their visits to the hospital. This seems to be a very alarming rate. Their research has also come to show that thirty percent of these infections are preventable, and that understaffing is one of the major attributors to this growing problem.

In this paper I will discuss the goals of the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) published report and its impact on nursing education, nursing practice specifically in primary care and the impact on the nurse as a role of leadership. In my conclusion, I will provide on a personal level what modifications I will make in my nursing practice to meet the IOM report goals. Within the paper I will explore how the impact of the 2010 IOM published report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” has on the three topic points stated above. The IOM published report was set forth by the IOM’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing committee group whose purpose is

This source is a book written by two professors making it a trustworthy source. It was published this year (2017), making it timely. The authors of the article did a wonderful job of being descriptive and concise with their research. I like how personal each story was for each nurse giving me as the reader and research a personal

Knowledge is the driving force for change. As communities grow and expand, so do the issues and challenges facing healthcare. These issues influence the direction of nursing research which provides the scientific basis for our practice and provides answers to the demands for increasing efficiency in quality care, increased need for higher education and development in all areas of the nursing profession.

This paper will be exploring the impact of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health released on October 05, 2010. In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the IOM launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed a committee with the purpose of, “producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.” This paper will explore the impact of this report on nursing education, nursing practice, and the

It is great to have resources such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM), American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Joint Commission: Accreditation Health Care (JCAHO) to help improve the nursing practice. The IOM report provided many suggestions to tackle some of the major health concerns in the United States today. Now, we just need to implement these changes right away to ensure top notch patient care is being provided.

In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) generated a report making recommendations that outline progressive planning for the future of nursing.  The Institute has responded to barriers and offers solutions to the rapidly changing healthcare model in light of the affordable care act (The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health, 2011). This paper will consider the impact of the IOM on nursing education, nursing practice and the nurse’s role as a leader.  It will examine, what I believe to be positive

Advances in technology, computer systems and internet enabled nursing professionals to access medical and nursing databases and health information for practice, education and research. The quantity of information available is so extensive that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of them. There are several kinds of articles available in computer databases, scholarly journals and published from various government and private organizations. Each of them serves different purposes and intended for a variety of audiences, from scholars to general population. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast a scholarly article with an internet resource, on a health topic relevant to

The combination of professionalism and ethics can be equated with an extraordinary nurse because they are core components in the nursing profession and crucial to patient trust, confidence and wellbeing. Having a degree in nursing is not what makes one a professional. Professionalism is

Ethical dilemmas commonly faced in the nursing profession arises when nurses are at crossroads between moral ideologies and competing demands of miscellaneous parties; this includes “the client’s desires, the physician’s orders, the family’s demands, the bureaucracy of the hospital, the law, as well as the nurse’s physical and emotional limitations” (Chambliss, 1996, p. 93). One common ethical issue encountered by nurses’ today is the interjection of advance directives to his/her innate duty to care. Specifically, this paper presents a case vignette about a Jehovah’s Witness, who is refusing a necessary blood transfusion due to religious beliefs. After analysing the ethical dilemma, I strongly believe that the client’s autonomical decision

Although the nursing profession is based on caring for patients, there are scenarios that arise that test the nurse’s ability to make decisions that are beneficial for the patients. There can be situations that are simple and the decision is clear. However, there are scenarios that many nurses encounter that challenge their personal, professional, ethical values and principles along with addressing laws. It becomes a mental battle to decide which value and principle is the best option to base their decision for an optimal outcome. The scenario that creates an ethical dilemma is a patient named John who was admitted to the unit. He is a person with schizophrenia who has had many relapses, but they are starting to become less frequent. When he goes into a relapse he becomes paranoid and refuses to see his parents. He has written an advance directive that defines which medications he wishes to receive during his relapse, while also wanting his parents to be notified. There is a new physician on the unit that is refusing to use the medication that John has requested. She has also said that anyone who notifies his parents will have a complaint filed against them since it violates the patient’s rights to contact the parents.

As the popularity of the internet has increased, people rely on internet information. Searching for an information can bring many information, but all of these information’s are not always credible. In order to apply best evidence based practices in nursing, finding reliable information is equally important. Such information’s can be found by searching a peer-reviewed articles in a library database such as the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Library and MEDLINE. My current work place provides an access to their library and I access this library for information. I like PubMed articles, which provide an immense information on health care topics.